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| August 12, 2001 - Beijing Circus & Suzhou Gardens |
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| An acrobat catching five bowls, stacked inside each other, on top of his head after flipping them off the end of the plank he's standing on. His plank is balanced on a metal tower on the shoulders of another acrobat, who's also balanced on a plank and roller. Amazing. |
| Our last night in Beijing was spent admiring the amazing acrobatic feats of a Chinese circus troupe. We then took a train south to the old city of Suzhou (near Shanghai), famous for its classical Chinese gardens, the height of Chinese elegance. |
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| This guy could be an Olympic-class high jumper. |
| 13 people on one bicycle; a useful skill in crowded, transport-poor China. |
| Silk threads at the impressive Suzhou Silk Museum |
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| The Zhuozheng Yuan, or Humble Administrator's Garden, the largest of the famous Suzhou gardens, full of little pavilions and walkways and bowers. And tourists, by the thousand. |
| A street stall selling "painted-on-the-inside" glass botttles that had Joanne oohing and aahing. |
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| Oct. 20-Nov.11: Lhasa-Kathmandu Oct.10 -20: Lhasa-tude Sept.5-Oct. 9: The ride to Lhasa July 20-Sept.4: Riding the Capitalist Rooster June 29-July 19: SW China June 28: Laos June 20: Northeast Thailand |
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